#manners

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

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Beware of a man with manners. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#man #manners

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. ↗

— Lord Acton

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...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. ↗

— Philip Pullman

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Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners. ↗

— James Kent

#consideration #differ #dimensions #each #entitled

All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal to me in the course of debate. I despise the arrogance and doting self-regard so frequently found among the very bright. ↗

— Edward O. Wilson

#bad-attitude #etiquette #good-manners #ill-mannered-scientists #impoliteness